Google Earth armchair explorer

[Buzzsaw]

As the satellite imagery gets better, there's more and more to see with satellite imagery. There is a base at -77.413990° 163.683769° near Gneiss Point about 85 km NW of McMurdo. It looks like it has at least one fairly modern structure. I tried to google it for a few hours and haven't been able to come up with an identity. Can anyone here tell me the name of the base and what is done there?

[flighter]

It wasn't tagged on Google Earth?

[Buzzsaw]

Originally Posted by flighter

It wasn't tagged on Google Earth?

Nope. It's not in the database Google uses or in the more extensive Geonames database. And no mark from the Google Earth Community layer has been added by any user.

[Paul Ward]

It's a US refuelling facility, put this into Google:

77.41S 163.68E

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1000347/Na...sap-200506aeoi

http://www.nsf.gov/about/contracting...ces_tagged.pdf

Looks like it's used by helicopters flying from McMurdo, it's called Marble Point.

How did you find it though?

[Buzzsaw]

Originally Posted by Paul Ward

It's a US refuelling facility, put this into Google:

77.41S 163.68E

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1000347/Na...sap-200506aeoi

http://www.nsf.gov/about/contracting...ces_tagged.pdf

Looks like it's used by helicopters flying from McMurdo, it's called Marble Point.

How did you find it though?

Thanks, mystery solved. That is a nice set of documents.

A new member of the Google Earth Community forum posted the question after he had just been browsing the imagery.

[Buzzsaw]

Originally Posted by Paul Ward

It's a US refuelling facility, put this into Google:

77.41S 163.68E

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1000347/Na...sap-200506aeoi

http://www.nsf.gov/about/contracting...ces_tagged.pdf

Looks like it's used by helicopters flying from McMurdo, it's called Marble Point.

How did you find it though?

That's it. Thanks for your help. I'll post the information.

One of our new members found it just scanning the imagery. I don't know how he did though since the imagery there is so underexposed.